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how do i automatically delete many captions
I have many documents with lots of unwanted captions within each document. Is
there a method where I can automatically remove ALL captions rather than manually delete each one. Thanks for any assistance. Al S |
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how do i automatically delete many captions
If the captions use the "caption" style you could use either:
Find: any character (^?), Format: Style: Caption, Check "Highlight all items..." then Delete Find and replace: same Find as above , Replace with nothing Hope this helps "Al Smyth" Al wrote in message ... I have many documents with lots of unwanted captions within each document. Is there a method where I can automatically remove ALL captions rather than manually delete each one. Thanks for any assistance. Al S |
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how do i automatically delete many captions
G'Day Crios,
I have been able to test out your method which does work with "caption formatting". Unfortunately I have discovered the documents I am editing are NOT using caption formating but the Field "seq" to number items. Although I am able to search using ^d to find the fields and individually delete the required fields, I have yet to discover how to specifically target the seq field so as not to delete the other fields contained in the document. Guess it back to the reading room. Thank you for your assistance and if you can think of how to target and delete a specific field it would be appreciated. Al S "Crios" wrote: If the captions use the "caption" style you could use either: Find: any character (^?), Format: Style: Caption, Check "Highlight all items..." then Delete Find and replace: same Find as above , Replace with nothing Hope this helps "Al Smyth" Al wrote in message ... I have many documents with lots of unwanted captions within each document. Is there a method where I can automatically remove ALL captions rather than manually delete each one. Thanks for any assistance. Al S |
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Hi
you could use the lack of caption formatting to your advantage: 1 change to view field codes (Alt+F9) 2 replace "SEQ" with Special "find what text" (^&), Format: Style: Caption (or any other style that you don't use in the documents) 3 replace Special "Any character", Format: Style: Caption with nothing Hope this works. "Al Smyth" wrote in message news  G'Day Crios, I have been able to test out your method which does work with "caption formatting". Unfortunately I have discovered the documents I am editing are NOT using caption formating but the Field "seq" to number items. Although I am able to search using ^d to find the fields and individually delete the required fields, I have yet to discover how to specifically target the seq field so as not to delete the other fields contained in the document. Guess it back to the reading room. Thank you for your assistance and if you can think of how to target and delete a specific field it would be appreciated. Al S "Crios" wrote: If the captions use the "caption" style you could use either: Find: any character (^?), Format: Style: Caption, Check "Highlight all items..." then Delete Find and replace: same Find as above , Replace with nothing Hope this helps "Al Smyth" Al wrote in message ... I have many documents with lots of unwanted captions within each document. Is there a method where I can automatically remove ALL captions rather than manually delete each one. Thanks for any assistance. Al S |
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Hi Crios,
Thank you for all your help. Your suggested method did have a side-effect by making the entire line the field was in caption style. I may try this method again on a newer version of office and see if it works correctly there (I have 2000, 2003 and 2007 and currently was working on 2000). However using your suggestion I was able to change the formatting font's colour to white, thus rendering the captions invisible. I will now contruct a macro and add to normal.dot. This will certainly make my task much easier. Thanks again Al S "Crios" wrote: Hi you could use the lack of caption formatting to your advantage: 1 change to view field codes (Alt+F9) 2 replace "SEQ" with Special "find what text" (^&), Format: Style: Caption (or any other style that you don't use in the documents) 3 replace Special "Any character", Format: Style: Caption with nothing Hope this works. "Al Smyth" wrote in message news G'Day Crios, I have been able to test out your method which does work with "caption formatting". Unfortunately I have discovered the documents I am editing are NOT using caption formating but the Field "seq" to number items. Although I am able to search using ^d to find the fields and individually delete the required fields, I have yet to discover how to specifically target the seq field so as not to delete the other fields contained in the document. Guess it back to the reading room. Thank you for your assistance and if you can think of how to target and delete a specific field it would be appreciated. Al S "Crios" wrote: If the captions use the "caption" style you could use either: Find: any character (^?), Format: Style: Caption, Check "Highlight all items..." then Delete Find and replace: same Find as above , Replace with nothing Hope this helps "Al Smyth" Al wrote in message ... I have many documents with lots of unwanted captions within each document. Is there a method where I can automatically remove ALL captions rather than manually delete each one. Thanks for any assistance. Al S |
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If the aim of the game is to remove SEQ fields, the following macro will do
that Dim sLabel As String sLablel = "Label" With ActiveDocument For i = .Fields.Count To 1 Step -1 If .Fields(i).Type = wdFieldSequence Then ' If InStr(1, .Fields(i), sLabel) Then .Fields(i).Delete 'End If End If Next i End With It is possible to have several numbering sequences in a document. If you only want to remove the SEQ fields for a particular sequence, then remove the initial quotes from the quoted lines and set the sequence name in the variable sLabel http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Al Smyth wrote: Hi Crios, Thank you for all your help. Your suggested method did have a side-effect by making the entire line the field was in caption style. I may try this method again on a newer version of office and see if it works correctly there (I have 2000, 2003 and 2007 and currently was working on 2000). However using your suggestion I was able to change the formatting font's colour to white, thus rendering the captions invisible. I will now contruct a macro and add to normal.dot. This will certainly make my task much easier. Thanks again Al S "Crios" wrote: Hi you could use the lack of caption formatting to your advantage: 1 change to view field codes (Alt+F9) 2 replace "SEQ" with Special "find what text" (^&), Format: Style: Caption (or any other style that you don't use in the documents) 3 replace Special "Any character", Format: Style: Caption with nothing Hope this works. "Al Smyth" wrote in message news G'Day Crios, I have been able to test out your method which does work with "caption formatting". Unfortunately I have discovered the documents I am editing are NOT using caption formating but the Field "seq" to number items. Although I am able to search using ^d to find the fields and individually delete the required fields, I have yet to discover how to specifically target the seq field so as not to delete the other fields contained in the document. Guess it back to the reading room. Thank you for your assistance and if you can think of how to target and delete a specific field it would be appreciated. Al S "Crios" wrote: If the captions use the "caption" style you could use either: Find: any character (^?), Format: Style: Caption, Check "Highlight all items..." then Delete Find and replace: same Find as above , Replace with nothing Hope this helps "Al Smyth" Al wrote in message ... I have many documents with lots of unwanted captions within each document. Is there a method where I can automatically remove ALL captions rather than manually delete each one. Thanks for any assistance. Al S |
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Hi Graham,
Thanks for this alternative which is more elegant to what I finally used. This will be added to my knowledge base for future reference. Al S "Graham Mayor" wrote: If the aim of the game is to remove SEQ fields, the following macro will do that Dim sLabel As String sLablel = "Label" With ActiveDocument For i = .Fields.Count To 1 Step -1 If .Fields(i).Type = wdFieldSequence Then ' If InStr(1, .Fields(i), sLabel) Then .Fields(i).Delete 'End If End If Next i End With It is possible to have several numbering sequences in a document. If you only want to remove the SEQ fields for a particular sequence, then remove the initial quotes from the quoted lines and set the sequence name in the variable sLabel http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Al Smyth wrote: Hi Crios, Thank you for all your help. Your suggested method did have a side-effect by making the entire line the field was in caption style. I may try this method again on a newer version of office and see if it works correctly there (I have 2000, 2003 and 2007 and currently was working on 2000). However using your suggestion I was able to change the formatting font's colour to white, thus rendering the captions invisible. I will now contruct a macro and add to normal.dot. This will certainly make my task much easier. Thanks again Al S "Crios" wrote: Hi you could use the lack of caption formatting to your advantage: 1 change to view field codes (Alt+F9) 2 replace "SEQ" with Special "find what text" (^&), Format: Style: Caption (or any other style that you don't use in the documents) 3 replace Special "Any character", Format: Style: Caption with nothing Hope this works. "Al Smyth" wrote in message news
G'Day Crios,I have been able to test out your method which does work with "caption formatting". Unfortunately I have discovered the documents I am editing are NOT using caption formating but the Field "seq" to number items. Although I am able to search using ^d to find the fields and individually delete the required fields, I have yet to discover how to specifically target the seq field so as not to delete the other fields contained in the document. Guess it back to the reading room. Thank you for your assistance and if you can think of how to target and delete a specific field it would be appreciated. Al S "Crios" wrote: If the captions use the "caption" style you could use either: Find: any character (^?), Format: Style: Caption, Check "Highlight all items..." then Delete Find and replace: same Find as above , Replace with nothing Hope this helps "Al Smyth" Al wrote in message ... I have many documents with lots of unwanted captions within each document. Is there a method where I can automatically remove ALL captions rather than manually delete each one. Thanks for any assistance. Al S |
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I hope you removed the typo
 sLablel = "Label" should have read sLabel = "Label" -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Al Smyth wrote: Hi Graham, Thanks for this alternative which is more elegant to what I finally used. This will be added to my knowledge base for future reference. Al S "Graham Mayor" wrote: If the aim of the game is to remove SEQ fields, the following macro will do that Dim sLabel As String sLablel = "Label" With ActiveDocument For i = .Fields.Count To 1 Step -1 If .Fields(i).Type = wdFieldSequence Then ' If InStr(1, .Fields(i), sLabel) Then .Fields(i).Delete 'End If End If Next i End With It is possible to have several numbering sequences in a document. If you only want to remove the SEQ fields for a particular sequence, then remove the initial quotes from the quoted lines and set the sequence name in the variable sLabel http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Al Smyth wrote: Hi Crios, Thank you for all your help. Your suggested method did have a side-effect by making the entire line the field was in caption style. I may try this method again on a newer version of office and see if it works correctly there (I have 2000, 2003 and 2007 and currently was working on 2000). However using your suggestion I was able to change the formatting font's colour to white, thus rendering the captions invisible. I will now contruct a macro and add to normal.dot. This will certainly make my task much easier. Thanks again Al S "Crios" wrote: Hi you could use the lack of caption formatting to your advantage: 1 change to view field codes (Alt+F9) 2 replace "SEQ" with Special "find what text" (^&), Format: Style: Caption (or any other style that you don't use in the documents) 3 replace Special "Any character", Format: Style: Caption with nothing Hope this works. "Al Smyth" wrote in message news
G'Day Crios,I have been able to test out your method which does work with "caption formatting". Unfortunately I have discovered the documents I am editing are NOT using caption formating but the Field "seq" to number items. Although I am able to search using ^d to find the fields and individually delete the required fields, I have yet to discover how to specifically target the seq field so as not to delete the other fields contained in the document. Guess it back to the reading room. Thank you for your assistance and if you can think of how to target and delete a specific field it would be appreciated. Al S "Crios" wrote: If the captions use the "caption" style you could use either: Find: any character (^?), Format: Style: Caption, Check "Highlight all items..." then Delete Find and replace: same Find as above , Replace with nothing Hope this helps "Al Smyth" Al wrote in message ... I have many documents with lots of unwanted captions within each document. Is there a method where I can automatically remove ALL captions rather than manually delete each one. Thanks for any assistance. Al S |
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